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This week's episode was recorded LIVE at Resident in downtown LA, as a part of The Voyager Institute's lecture series. So you may hear some noises in the background that you're not normally accustomed to - audience members laughing, drinks being made, and people having the best night of their lives! We have on the program the co-creator of Lifetime's 'UnREAL', Sarah Gertrude Shapiro. She's on to talk about the beloved, 90's, goth-inspiring masterpiece, The Craft. April and Sarah discuss their love for the campiness of the film and the perfect casting of Fairuza Balk as the evil teenage witch, Nancy. Sarah also elaborates on what it is like running a TV show. She dives into the challenges of directing an episode while also needing to be in the writing room. Plus, she details her journey from working on 'The Bachelor', to ending up in advertising in Portland, to creating her own TV show. Show notes

Today's prizes: Doug Stanhope's CDs "Sicko" and "something to take the edge off." Your chance to revel in the base glory of standup's kind of sleaze and scathing social satire.

Here's the contest: draw a picture of what you did on your summer vacation. Doesn't have to be true, and in fact, it should NOT be true. You can draw it in real life and scan it, or draw it on the computer and send it over to contest at maximumfun dot org. Please keep it small in file size, so my mailbox doesn't fill up again -- or even better, upload it somewhere and email a link.

Include today's date in your subject line, and your address in the body of the email. If you don't want to be on the email list, make mention of it.

You have ALL WEEKEND for this, as I'm not sure I'll be able to post a contest on Monday. Your deadline 7AM pacific time Monday. Ready, set... GO!

Today's Sound of Young America contest asked for haikus on the theme "Seasons Change (The Sound of Young America)." I chose the winner randomly (congrats to Michelle in Lebanon, CT)... here's here winning poem:T.S.O.Y.A iscool in the summer time andhot in the winter

Michelle's sister Carol offered:

T.S.O.Y.A. Spring,Now reborn in summertime,a contest haven.

and the particularly winning (I thought):

Please donate to theSound, so Jesse can purchasewarm clothes for winter.

Jer offers:

Wooing our Sweetheartto Russia is quite futileThis one's USA's

Troy from Hattiesburg (a radio listener?):

my show is awesomeno one will give me moneya time to sell rocks

Neal in Massachusetts:

Cold Thorn gives way tosound of casting pods in spring -a New Sincerity.

Mike in Illinois stokes the fires of a dormant feud:

Garrison Keillorwoefull jokes waste good bandwidthThe Sound is rising

Jill in Rock Island, IL offers:

Sweetheart Jesse ThornInterviews people for peopleSnow Rain Sun and Fall

Another comedy CD courtesy of Stand Up! Records is today's prize. Your challenge is to write a haiku on the theme, "Seasons Change (The Sound of Young America)."

Email your answer to contest at maximumfun dot org, include your address and poem in the body and the date in the subject. If you dowanna be on our list, mention that. I'll close the contest around close of business, pacific time.

Today's Sound of Young America contest is for a copy of the Jimmy Shubert CD "Pandemonium," courtesy of Stand Up! Records.

Here's your question: what are the nicknames of the three hosts of "The College Years?"

Email your answer to contest at maximimumfun dot org, with the date in the subject, and your answer and mailing address in the body. If you don't want to be on our email list mention it. Remember that entering one of the little contests also enters you in the contest for the Pez MP3 player at the end of the month.

Listener Chad Lehrman just started up SFStandup.com, which looks like it'll be a great resource for folks interested in comedy in the Bay Area. He's got calendars for all the clubs in town in one place, plus news and forums. Looks great.